ANNOYING Synonyms

• causing irritation or annoyance

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• making worse

• discouraging by hindering

• preventing realization or attainment of a desire

• a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

• a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

• optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• causing irritation or annoyance

• (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite

• causing physical discomfort

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• (informal) small and of little importance

• causing irritation or annoyance

• contaminated with infecting organisms

• likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

• tending to corrupt or pervert

• causing irritation or annoyance

• exceedingly harmful

• likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

• causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• causing difficulty or annoyance

• causing irritation or annoyance

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• causing irritation or annoyance

• general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

• a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

• a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

• insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

• a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

• annoy persistently

• tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

• annoy continually or chronically

• make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes